Summaries

Question 1

How could you find out what options are available for you to use in dividing up a pie chart, choosing categories for your bar graph, or setting up levels of a group summary?

Answer 1

Check the list of available and used columns in the display tab of your report

Question 2

What controls the list of available measures in slicerdicer

Answer 2

Measures are chosen from the list of slicerdicer filters (FDS records) available in a given data model

Question 3

True or false. In table components, the colored indicators can have different thresholds for each row

Answer 3

True. On the threshold tab in the output format form, you can specify overrides for each row to have its own threshold.

Question 4

What causes of concern would we have about a table component where the first row (yellow) has a lower bound 34 and upper bound is 67, the second row (green) is zero and 33, and the final row (red) has only a lower bound of 68?

Answer 4

The threshold do not account for decimal percent values

Question 5

When can you integrate dashboard parameters and dates with your SlicerDicer session?

Answer 5

While viewing your dashboard 

Question 6

When should you use summaries?

Answer 6

Anytime a user wants to aggregate and analyze data in groups, or track trends over time.

Question 7

Where are workbench report summaries built?

Answer 7

They are built in the summary tab of the report settings window

Question 8

What are the different ways to visualize the summary?

Answer 8

Grouped summary, bar graph, line graph, area graph, pie chart, and table

Question 9

How does radar evaluate threshold?

Answer 9

First by specificity, and then by order

Question 10

When should you use slicerdicer components

Answer 10

Data that you want to see every time you login, data related to other metrics and graphs on an existing dashboard, or a query you want to be able to revisit regularly and modify or re-evaluate for unique cases 

Question 11

When should you not use Slicerdicer components?

Answer 11

To track a predefined and unchanging metric across departments or users. You should use a metric based component instead.

To find a small set of records on which you need to take immediate action or see real-time details. Use a reporting workbench report instead.